This book assembles many of the foremost writers and clinicians in the field of team-based primary care to share their own relational reflections. It features narratives from fields such as integrated behavioral health, integrated primary care, primary care behavioral health, medical family therapy, health psychology, primary care psychology, and clinical social work. The key focus of the chapters are the relationships that are formed during primary care delivery. The book is organized into six core chapters: Family of Origin, Teachers and Mentors, Our Patients and Ourselves, Colleagues and Collaborators, Clinician as Patient, and Death and Loss. Each chapter contains a variety of styles and formats of narrative medicine, including personal reflections, story-telling, and poetry. Connections in the Clinic will be of interest to a wide audience of clinicians and educators dedicated to a reflective or story-telling approach to healing.

Privileged Presence is a collection of more than 50 stories that capture both the medical and emotional aspects of the health care experience through tales from those who have been there, and offers powerful messages about the essential ingredients of "good" health care: respect, compassion, collaboration, open and honest communication, family involvement, and flexibility and responsiveness to individuals and their needs. This updated second edition uses real-world experiences recounted by patients and their families, nurses, doctors, and other health care professionals to illustrate what works and what doesn't and what increases or diminishes people's sense of confidence and well-being.

Shift Clinic design to keep pace with the evolving healthcareindustry Modern Clinic Design: Strategies for an Era of Change isa comprehensive guide to optimizing patient experience through thedesign of the built environment. Written by a team of veteranhealthcare interior designers, architects, and engineers, this bookaddresses the impacts of evolving legislation, changingtechnologies, and emerging nontraditional clinic models on clinicdesign, and illustrates effective design strategies for any type ofclinic. Readers will find innovative ideas about lean design,design for flexibility, and the use of mock-ups to prototype spaceplans within a clinic setting, and diagrammed examples includingwaiting rooms, registration desks, and exam rooms that demonstratehow these ideas are applied to real-world projects. Spurred on by recent healthcare legislation and newtechnological developments, clinics can now offer a greater varietyof services in a greater variety of locations. Designers not onlyneed to know the different requirements for each of these spaces,but also understand how certain design strategies affect thepatient's experience in the space. This book explores all aspectsof clinic design, and describes how aesthetics and functionalitycan merge to provide a positive experience for patients, staff, andhealthcare providers. Understand how recent industry developments impact facilitydesign Learn how design strategies can help create a positive patientexperience Examine emerging clinic models that are becoming increasinglyprevalent Analyze the impact of technology on clinic design A well-designed clinic is essential for the well-being of thepatients and health care providers that occupy the space every day.The healthcare industry is shifting, and the healthcare designindustry must shift with it to continue producing spaces that arerelevant to ever-evolving patient and worker needs. For completeguidance toward the role of design, Modern Clinic Design isa thorough, practical reference.

The Mayo Clinic Guide to Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Second Edition, is a thoroughly handy reference text and soon to be classic text is designed to educate physicists, technologists, and clinicians in the basics of cardiac MRI. A significantly expanded and reworked clinical imaging section provides numerous imaging protocols for the most commonly indicated cardiac MRI examinations as well as a plethora of well illustrated and described clinical examples. This text is a must have for anyone interested in developing their own cardiovascular MR imaging practice or advancing their existing skills. The addition of case-based questions and answers add a new dimension to this expanded second edition.

This book explores previously unexamined overlaps between the poetic imagination and the medical mind. It shows how appreciation of poetry can help us to engage with medicine in more intense ways based on ‘de-familiarising’ old habits and bringing poetic forms of ‘close reading’ to the clinic. Bleakley and Neilson carry out an extensive critical examination of the well-established practices of narrative medicine to show that non-narrative, lyrical poetry does different kind of work, previously unexamined, such as place eclipsing time. They articulate a groundbreaking ‘lyrical medicine’ that promotes aesthetic, ethical and political practices as well as noting the often-concealed metaphor cache of biomedicine. Demonstrating that ambiguity is a key resource in both poetry and medicine, the authors anatomise poetic and medical practices as forms of extended and situated cognition, grounded in close readings of singular contexts. They illustrate structural correspondences between poetic diction and clinical thinking, such as use of sound and metaphor. This provocative examination of the meaningful overlap between poetic and clinical work is an essential read for researchers and practitioners interested in extending the reach of medical and health humanities, narrative medicine, medical education and English literature.